In the song "Jet Airliner" by the Steve Miller Band, there's a line that goes "Don't take me too far away". When I was little I thought it was "Don't take me to my wake". I assumed that he was talking about how he didn't want to die in a plane crash, which made sense. I remember thinking, "But how could you ever attend your OWN WAKE?"
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- "Big "Ol Jet Had A Light On" aka Big Ol Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band— My son in law John
- I used to think that Steve Miller song "Big old jet airliner" was "Bingo Jed had a light out" — Skeeter
- when i was young i used to believe a wake was when you waited for the dead person to wake upAnon
- I used to think that the line in the song "Life in the Fast Lane" was "Fights in the Bat Plane".Anon
- I thought that life is a dream and when you die you wake up (maybe it's true who knows?)— Naos
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon